Billiard-cue.



A. F. IVlcDADE.

BILLIARD CUE.

APPLICATION HLED JUNE 24.1918.

1 ,282,096. Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

-ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED FRANKLIN MCDADE, 0F LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRDT0 CHAS. JACOBSON AND ONE-THIRD TO HENRY LOEIB, BOTH OF LITTLE ROCK,

ARKANSAS.

BILLIAED-CUE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

Application filed June 24, 1918. Serial No. 241,613.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED FRANKLIN MCDADE, of Little Rock, in thecounty of Pulaski, and in the State of Arkansas, have invented a certainnew and useful Improvement in Billiard-Cues, and do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to the attachment of tips to billiard cues.Ordinarily the tips are secured by glue, which of necessity because ofthe time required for the glue to set, is a slow process, and besides,as a clamp must be employed to hold the tip in place while the glue issetting, there is danger that the one will be warped. The object of myin vention is to attach the tip by means that will dispense with the useof glue and its objectionable incidents, and enable the work to be doneeasily and quickly, and by a simple operation that calls for no specialskill, and with no impairment of the quality of the cue, and to this endmy invention consists in the tip-attaching means substantially ashereinafter specified and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side View partly in longitudinal section of a cue havingits tip attached in accordance wiith my invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the parts shown separated, and beforethe attaching operation has been performed;

F ig. 3 is a detail view in side elevation, of the metal pivot orattaching member, showing its form before use.

In the practice of my invention I take a cue of familiar constructionthat is composed of the stick 10, reduced at its ballstriking end toprovide a stem 11, a sleeve, or ivory 12 that fits over the stem; and

a tip 13, of leather, that is applied to the flush ends of the bushingand stem, against which its fiat inner face bears. The stem 11 is nickedor cut to provide a longitudinal slit 14:, extending inward from itsouter end, and into such slit is placed a flat metal strip or blade 15that is split or forked at one end to provide two prongs or fingers 16,which before use, are bent slightly out of the plane of the body of theblade, with their convex sides outermost. When thus inserted in the slit14, the prongs project beyond the stem 11. The sleeve 12 is now slippedupon the stem, and next the tip 13 is applied to the ends of the prongs16, which are preferably sharp, and by blows upon the tip, as bystriking it against the floor or other object, it is driven upon theprongs, and simultaneously the blade 15 is driven farther into the stem,and the prongs are bent or turned laterally outward into the body of thetip, in opposite directions, and form hooks embedded therein, as shownbest in Fig. l, which securely hold the tip, such outward bending of theprongs taking place because of the initial bend given to them as shownin Fig. 3. The sleeve or ferrule encircling the stem prevents the latterfrom being split by the driving of the blade 15 into it, and at the sametime assures such a tight grip of the stem on the blade as to firmlyhold the latter and the tip, to the one.

I claim A cue having tip-attaching means, consisting of a sleevesurrounding the stick at the tip end, and a blade entering thesleevesurrounded portion of the stick and reaching substantially fromside to side of the stick-inclosed portion and expanding the latteragainst the interior of the sleeve, and having an integral prongedextension embedded in the tip.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

ALFRED FRANKLIN MoDADE.

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